In its unreadiness and unaptness to receive instruction in and about the concernments of it. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)
I hate the look of disorder, because it shows either a contempt for details or an unaptness for spiritual life. ❋ Various (N/A)
The bent of his intellect was classical, as we see in his astonishing _Observations on the Art of English Poesy_, in which he sets out to demonstrate "the unaptness of rhyme in poesy." ❋ Robert Lynd (1914)
A "yearning after God," or supreme and universal good, unconsciously cherished through the earlier stages of the history, keeps this mind from utterly dissipating itself; and, which seems to us the only point in which the coherence fails, there is added an unaptness for love, a mere perception of the beautiful, the perception being felt more precious than its object .... ❋ R. Brimley Johnson (1899)
His very lack of personal sensitiveness, his unaptness to be moved by the pathetic appeal of the individual, might have been made a shield for his own peace; but he laid that shield down, and bared his breast to the sharp arrows; and in his noble madness to redress the wrongs of the world he was, perhaps, more like one of his great generous knights than he himself ever suspected. ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)
There is indeed a consciousness of immoral conditions of humanity, yea, of a natural unaptness for the good; but these conditions are almost always attributed to mere civic and individual degeneracy, and this unaptness is confined to barbarians and slaves. ❋ 1819-1870 (1873)
Either from overboldness in the metaphors, or from some unaptness in the material of them, I have to confess that my mind rather rebels against these stretches of poetical prerogative. ❋ Hudson, H N (1872)
By the confusion which had reigned in my brain these two days, by the tastelessness of my Bible, by the unaptness for prayer, I knew, I knew, I could not go in the name of my Lord, for it would be to unfit myself for his work. ❋ Unknown (1868)
_ ''Tis true that to divorce upon extreme necessity, when, through the perverseness or the apparent unaptness of either, the continuance can be to both no good at all, but an intolerable injury and temptation to the wronged and the defrauded, to divorce then there is a book that writes it lawful. ❋ David Masson (1864)
'Tis true that to divorce upon extreme necessity, when, through the perverseness or the apparent unaptness of either, the continuance can be to both no good at all, but an intolerable injury and temptation to the wronged and the defrauded, to divorce then there is a book that writes it lawful. ❋ Masson, David, 1822-1907 (1859)
Bateson's turn for resistance, that its defect must lie in a spirit not bold and high enough, and in an excessive and pusillanimous unaptness for resistance. ❋ Matthew Arnold (1855)
By the confusion which had reigned in my brain these two days, by the tastelessness of my Bible, by the unaptness for prayer, I knew I could not go in the name of my Lord, for it would be to unfit myself for His work. ❋ Susan Warner (1852)
There is also (which is near a-kin to the last) a great unaptness to reflect upon any thing as absurd, though never so truly so, which occurs to them in this dreaming sleepy state. ❋ 1630-1705 (1822)
An unaptness to take care of avoiding offences among Christians is another breach of this same law of love. ❋ 1630-1705 (1822)
And there is as great an unaptness on the other hand to receive satisfaction. ❋ 1630-1705 (1822)
Or, perhaps, no correction is necessary, if we construe “made you” as “did you make;” “and that unaptness did you make help you thus to excuse yourself.” ❋ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1803)
You made my chance indisposition and occasional unaptness your minister -- that is, the ground on which you now excuse yourself. ❋ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1803)
